{"id":2141,"date":"2009-02-22T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2009-02-23T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T21:52:25","slug":"the-reds-whites-and-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"The reds, whites and blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> slightly follow US politics now: even after a historic change of presidency, my general impression is that it&#8217;s just politics as usual and that is not really of interest. The other day, I noticed that Fox News is spearheading &#8216;the warnings on the wall&#8217; shows, where the usual pundits warn of an impending US collapse (or apocalypse) because of the the &#8216;socialist&#8217; tendencies of the Obama administration. Too much static. Too much noise. I predict that in a couple of years the differences between a Bush and Obama administration will be hardly noticable.\n<\/p>\n<p>We were hit by a snowstorm last (was that Thursday) which added another 10 or 15 cms snow to the pile in the yard. There&#8217;s another storm forecasted for Sunday night, Monday morning and I bet, it will probably arrive on schedule with more of that white stuff. Where am I supposed to keep this snow now?\n<\/p>\n<p>On the good side, there are signs that Spring is slowly turning the corner: the weather has been moderately cold at night (between -11 and -15) and is slowly becoming bearable during the day, almost sub-tropic when temperatures hit the magical 0 degrees mark.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>Update 1:<\/strong> The official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/index.php?product=alerts&#038;placecode=canb0080&#038;region=wwcanb0019\">warning<\/a> says 25-35 cms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/new-brunswick\/story\/2009\/02\/23\/nb-storm.html\">CBC report<\/a> about the snowstorm, today (02\/23\/09)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slightly follow US politics now: even after a historic change of presidency, my general impression is that it&#8217;s just politics as usual and that is not really of interest. The other day, I noticed that Fox News is spearheading &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[302,244,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}